As I write this, dozens of reporters and perhaps thousands of bloggers from lefty sites are desperately, frantically searching for evidence that U.S. military personnel desecrated the Koran to apply psychological pressure to Muslim prisoners. They’re combing the archives of foreign newspapers, calling GI’s who served at detention facilities, milking their sources for all they’re worth, and wearing out search engine bots hoping to find the “smoking toilet” niblet that will propel them to moonbat stardom.

I have bad news for the Bush Administration and all of us smugly self-satisfied righty bloggers, basking in the glow of one more MSM scalp dangling from our lodgepoles; they’re going to find something.

I say try because it’s evident that Newsweek reporters Isikoff and Barry don’t use toilets very much. The only book that’s going down your garden variety “necessary” are the kinds of books you find in a box of Cracker Jacks. I’m dating myself here but Cracker Jack used to have a “surprise” in every box and one of the surprises was a “Joke Book” that had two or three really bad puns in it. The book was about the size of a matchbook and you were usually terribly disappointed you didn’t get the ring or the super small compass.

So after this truly startling and upsetting piece of information is “revealed” we’ll have to endure a month or two of moonbat crowing, solemn and sanctimonious editorials from the New York Times, and probably a round of Congressional hearings.

In the meantime, the benighted 10th century peasant savages, stirred into a frenzy of anguish by their holy men and holy warriors, will once again take to the streets and pick up where they left off last week. There will be head bashings and beatings and burnings and the usual posing before news cameras, complete with signs in very bad English saying something like “Amerikins Hands up Our Koran Holy!”

Of course, the irony of the protest will escape these feeble-minded, dirty necked galoots. Simply put, there is no othe religion on the planet today that shows less respect for the symbols and saints of faiths that differ from theirs.

The Palestinian gunmen holed up in the Church of the Nativity seized church stockpiles of food and â€œate like greedy monstersâ€ until the food ran out, while more than 150 civilians went hungry. They also guzzled beer, wine, and Johnnie Walker scotch that they found in priestsâ€™ quarters, undeterred by the Islamic ban on drinking alcohol. The indulgence lasted for about two weeks into the 39-day siege, when the food and drink ran out, according to an account by four Greek Orthodox priests who were trapped inside for the entire ordeal….

The Orthodox priests and a number of civilians have said the gunmen created a regime of fear.

Even in the Roman Catholic areas of the complex there was evidence of disregard for religious norms. Catholic priests said that some Bibles were torn up for toilet paper, and many valuable sacramental objects were removed. â€œPalestinians took candelabra, icons and anything that looked like gold,â€ said a Franciscan, the Rev. Nicholas Marquez from Mexico.42

These devout Muslims also urinated and defacted in the church - a church that Christians believe sits on the site marking where Jesus Christ was born.

Did any Buddhists riot and murder when the Taliban Muslims blew up the irreplaceable giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan?

When all Christian services and even the wearing of a cross were banned in Saudi Arabia? When Christians are murdered while at prayer in churches by Muslims in Pakistan?

Have any Jews rioted in all the years since it was revealed that Jordanian Muslims used Jewish tombstones in Old Jerusalem as latrines? Or after Palestinians destroyed Josephâ€™s Tomb in 2000 and set fire to the rebuilt tomb in 2003?

It is quite remarkable that many Muslims believe that an American interrogator flushing pages of the Koran is worthy of rioting, but all the torture, slaughter, terror and mass murder done by Muslims in the name of the Koran are unworthy of even a peaceful protest.

So the moonbats will have their triumph, a fat lot of good it will do them. If they’re so desperate to “get” Bush to the point that they’re willing for people to die to help quench the fires of hatred that burn so hotly in their tortured souls then there’s not much you can say to them that will deter their quixotic quest to…what? What do they want?

The left wants a 9/10 world. They want the way the world used to be not the world as it is today. The psychic anguish they’re experiencing as a result of the toppling of their comfortable, fantastic worldview following 9/11 has left them emotionally adrift and psychologically battered. All of their assumptions regarding international order and how the United States should relate to other countries have taken the same route as their mythical Koran - they’ve been flushed down the toilet.

A few - a very few- voices on the left have tried to cobble together a set of principles consistent with traditional liberal values and a hard headed, realistic approach to the War on Terror. Senator Joe Lieberman comes to mind as does Christopher Hitchens. There are others; solitary figures groping in the dark trying to make their way in this Brave New World of radioactive mullahs, nutty NoKo’s, and fanatical jihadists hell bent for leather on killing as many Americans as Allah will grant them the favor to do. So far, their efforts have been met with contempt by their fellow liberals. And they have yet to come up with coherent policy prescriptions to counter the Bush Administration’s neo-realpolitik outlook on world affairs.

Judging by the single minded determination of their brethren on the left who will not be deterred from their seek and destroy toilet mission, it may be a while before they’re taken seriously by anyone.

Maybe if the media keeps digging it will come up with an American interrogator who tortured German POWs during WWII by flushing pages of Mein Kampf down the toilet. What a blockbuster story this would be, after all these years of us thinking that the Nazis were the bad guys.